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Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky
Coverage of Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky in the Nexus archive.
- Ukraine, Poland and the Problem of Memory Without Clean Hands
In an EU Today podcast, former US federal prosecutor Bohdan Vitvitsky argues that the Polish-Ukrainian dispute over wartime memory cannot be resolved by one side acting as judge, as the conflicting memories cannot be easily reconciled or simplified into a single narrative.
- Grievance, Bewilderment and Ethnic Amnesia: Poland, Ukraine and the Politics of Historical Memory
Dr. Bohdan Vitvitsky's opinion piece argues that escalating tensions between Poland and Ukraine over historical memory are politically motivated rather than based on genuine conflict. It highlights the exaggerated dispute over a Ukrainian unit’s historical name, warning it diverts attention from the shared objective of countering Russia’s war.